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BOTTLE FILLING AND SEALING MACHINE.

APPLiCATION FILED MAR. 30, I916.

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UNITED STATES PATENT oroE.

AMOS GALLESON, 0F BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR TO ADRIANCE MACHINE WORKS, INC., OF BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, A CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

BOTTLE FILLING AND SEALING MACHINE.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, AMos CALLnsoN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Bottle Filling and Scaling Machines, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide a machine for filling and scaling containers,

and particularly for filling bottles by first delivering thereto a charge of syrup or the like and then a charge of carbonat-ing or other filling liquid and finally sealing the bottles, wherein these operations may be performed expeditiously, regardless of varia tions in the height of bottles assumedto be of standard height, with perfect results as to the product, and with the minimum of breakage of bottles, and which will not requir any special skill on the part of the op-' erator beyond that necessary for supplying the bottles to and removing them from the machine and effecting certain simple adjustments whenever changes are required in order to make the machine adapted to operate on bottles of different standard sizes.

The invention will be found fully illustrated in the accompanying drawings, where" Figures 1, 2 and 3 are front, side and rear elevations of the machine, and Fig. 3 a detail view showing av bracket forming a part of the frame;

Fig. 4 is a plan;

Fig. 5 is a vertical sectional view of the lower portion of the machine in a transverse plane through the shaft 20, looking rearward in Fig. i; and Fig. 5 shows a detail of Fig. 5;

Fig. 6 is a front to rear vertical sectional view of the lower portion of the machine in a plane substantially coincident with the main shaft and looking toward the left in Fig. 5;

Fig. 7 is a horizontal sectional view through th base portion of the machine in a plane just below the main shaft;

Fig. 8 a vertical sectional detail in a plane at right angles to that of Fig. 5, illustrating the upper part of thebottle-feeding means and the means to support the bottles while being operated upon, the line of section of the latter means being indicated at s-s in Fig. 9.

lpeeification of Letters Patent. Patented Nov. 19, 1918. Application filed March 30, 1916. Serial N 0. 87,804.

Figs. 9 and 10 are a plan and a sectional view of the fixed bottle supporting means shown'in Fig. 8;

Fig. 11 is a sectional view on line ww of Fig. 8;

Fig. 12 is a sectional View of the upper part, and Figs. 13 and 14 sectional views, at right. angles to each other of the lower part, of lt he bsottle elevating means shown partly 111 1g.

Fig. 15 is a sectional view on line 1 of Fig. 13;

Figs. 16 and 17 are views of a lever 27 in the bottle feeding means;

Figs. 18 and 19 are a front elevation, partly broken away, and a vertical sectional View of the syrup dispenser and Fig. 19 shows a detail thereof;

F ig- 20 is a plan, partly in section, of the syrup dispensing, bottle filling and sealing and closure feeding means, and Fig. 21 a front elevation thereof;

Figs. 22 and 28 are vertical sectional detail views, in planes at right angles to each other, of the filling and sealing and closure feeding means;

Figs. 24. to 33 show details of the lastnamed means concerned in the closure feed- Figs. 34 and 35 are a side and front elevation of the bracket 1 in which the cam shaft has partial support and the mechanism for transmitting power to said last-named means is in part supported;

Fig. 36 is a sectional detail, illustrating the snifting means; and,

Figs. 37, 38, 39 and 40 show the cams and corresponding rollers at the start of a cycle of the operation of the machine.

The frame of the machine includes a base a having a bracket 6 (Fig. 3 projecting rearwardly therefrom, a pedestal 0 (Figs. 2, 36 and 4) upstanding from the base, and a bracket cl surmounting the pedestal and braced by the rod 6.

In the machine as shown in the drawings the power is furnished by an electric motor) supported on the bracket (Z; said bracket also carries the closure supply hopper 9 having the depending delivery chute h and a rotary means, as i, for causing the closures to be delivered, properly faced, to said chute.

In fixed alined sleeves j in the base a (Fig. 6) is journaled the main shaft is. Pulleys Z and m on this shaft and a countershaft a suitably driven from the inotor shaft receive a belt for controlling the power transmission means thus afforded, 2'. a, for starting and stopping the machine, there is provided the manually operated means p including ny suitable clutch g for rendering the pulley Z fast or loose on shaft 70 (Fig. 2).

A bracket r (Fig. 5, 6, '7, er and 35) deends from the table forming the top of the case a and in bearings 12 bolted thereto and to the rear of the base is ournaled the camshaft 26 carrying four cam disks to, '0, w and a" and a pulley y, the periphery of the disk 2: being toothed to make of it a gear wheel e. The cam-shaft may be driven from the main shaft at variable speeds as follows (Fig. 6) @n the main shaft, which is held against longitudinal movement by the afore mentioned pulley and clutch Z and g on its rear end and a collar 2 on its fore end, is a broad pinion with which the largest of three graduated pinions 2, 3 and d, rotating as a unit, meshes; the pinion member 2-3l is journaled on the shaft 5 of a bracket which comprises with said shaft two arms 6 in which the shaft is rigid and which are pivotally hung from and slidable longitudinally on the sleeves 5), said bracket also including a handle 7, rigidly mounted on the shaft, and an arc-shaped late 8, lined to one of the arms and having holes 9 to receive a spring-pin 10 arranged in the basea, the arrangement being such that upon shifting the bracket "laterally and on sleeves j as an axis until the spring-pin engages in one of said holes one or the other of the pinions 2, 3, will be in mesh with the gear wheel o (see Figs. 5 and 6). A belt 11, passed around pulley 3 and a pulley 12 on a suitably supported shaft 13 in the head of the machine (Figs. 1 and 3) and carrying a friction wheel i l peripherally engaging the means 2, is employed to transmit power to said means t.

The bottles fed to the machine by the attendant, are successively and automatically positioned first for receiving the syrup charge and second for receiving the carbonated liquid charge, or filling, and being sealed, whereupon they are brought to the position for removal. Each bottle comes to a standstill in the present case for receiving its syrup charge and for filling and sealing, and to that end the feeding or advance of the bottles is intermittent or step by step. Provision is made for vertical adjustment of the means to support the bottles while undergoing the syrup dispensing and filling and sealing operations, so that hottles of dih erent standard heights may be operated upon; also for compensation during the filling and sealing operation for bottles varying in height which are supposed to be of standard height, and for certain vertical movement of each bottle preliminary to filling and sealing. The mechanism employed to these ends will now be described:

There is bolted to the table of base a an upstanding externally threaded pillar 15 (Fig. 8) on which is a hand-nut 15 which supports, and on being turned raises or lowers, a sleeve 16 whose head 17 (shrunk thereon) is surmounted by the bell-shaped center-part 18 of the bottle ieeding turret which includes the cylindrical bottle holders l9, freely slidable on vertical ways 19 of the centerpart and has depending from and keyed to it the vertical shaft 20. lhe turret, through shaft 20, is rotated step by step, as will appear, subject, however, to the friction grip of the arc-shaped spring-pressed friction-pads 21 (Fig. 11) interposed between its bell-shaped center-part and the head 17 of sleeve 16. immediately below turret the sleeve 16 has a bottle rest 22 (Figs. 8 and 9) having a fork 23 to engage a rib 24 on the pedestal c and so prevent the rest and sleeve from turning, while permitting their vertical adjustment by means of the nut 15; the bottle rest 22 comprises two parts, one integral with the sleeve 16 and having a web 22 joinin said sleeve and the hereinafter mentioned boss 22", and the other, 22 being part-circular and suitably secured to the first-named part. The bottles being advanced by the turret slide over the rest with their bottoms thereon (Fig .i), excepting at the filling and sealing position, where the rest is formed with an opening 22, Fig. 12, (through which means for elevating the bottles moves) and with a depending boss 22".

The step by step movement of the turret is derived from the cam u by the following means: The shaft is journaled in an arm 25 projecting from a guide 26 depending from the table (Figs. 5. 6. 7, and 13 to 15) and fulcrumed concentrically with the shaft is a lever 27 (Figs. 16 and 17) which is connected, by the universal connection 28. with the long arm of a bell-crank lever 29 fulcrumed in a bracket 30 bolted to the table and having a roll 31 on its short arm (held thereon by the removable clip 32, Fig. 5 so that it may be replaced by a new one when worn) bearing against the periphery of the cam a. Superimposed on lever 27 is a ratchet wheel 33 whose hub 33 is splined (Fig. 7)

to the shaft 20. A spring-pressed pawl is pivoted to the lever and serves in the oscillation thereof to rotatably advance the ratchet wheel and consequently shaft 20; 35 is a spring-pressed holding pawl which locks the ratchet against rotary movement in the backward movements of pawl 34:, being dis engaged from the ratchet wheel by a too 27 on the lever 27 at the moment when the pawl 34 is at its rearward limit and about to begin its advance. For imparting movement to the parts 27, 28 and 29 counterwise to that imparted by the cam u-I provide the spring 36 connecting the lever 29 with a fixed part of the frame of the machine.

The means for elevating the bottles at the filling and sealing position and for compensating for variations in their height is best shown in Figs. 6, 7, 8 and 12 to 15, 37 is a vertical spindle on the upper end of which is screwed a cap 38 (Fig. 12) to which is suitably secured a bell-shaped head 39 or bottle seat equipped with an elastic bottle pad 40. The head 39 occupies telescoped relation tothe boss 22" of the rest 22 and to the sleeve 41 which is screwed into said boss 22" from below and projects up into the head 39; in the rise or fall of the plunger including parts 37 to 40 its movement is under certain conditions having to do with the compensation positively limited on the one hand by contact of the flange 39 of head 39 with the flange 22 on the boss 22 and on the other by contact of the cap 38 with the upper end of the sleeve 41. In the guide 26 moves a slide 42 containing certain mechanism adapting it as a carrier for the bottle supporting structure just referred to and having a roll 43 which runsin a groove u in the left hand face of the disk u. Screwed into the top of the slide 42 is a nut 44 abutted by a tapered plug 45 of leather or other friction-grip material which fits the tapered bore of a collar 46 which under the upward pressure of a spiral spring 47 acts to contract said leather plug into gripping relation to the spindle 37 which penetrates these several parts. Rigid in the slide, as by being set at their ends in opposite sides thereof (Fig. 13), is a pair of spaced plates 48 joined by pins 49, one on each side of the spindle, forming bearings for rolls 50. Between the rolls and penetrated by the spindle is a downwardly tapered hardened split wedge or cone 51 surmounted by a washer 52 against which spring 47 bears; the inside of the wedge is ribbed transversely, as shown in Fig. 13, and when the spring is free to force it downwardly to the limit the rolls and spindle will allow its grip on the spindle is substantially positive. At the lower end of the slide 42 is pivoted a lever 53 one arm of which underlies a washer 54 beneath the wedge and penetrated by the spindle and the other arm of which carries a roller 53 which at a certain :point in each cycle of the machine is engaged by a cam u on the side of disk 20 (Figs. 2 and 7). Fig. 13 shows the wedge elevated slightly by the lever 53, so that the wedge is inactive to grip the spindle andthe slide is capable of slipping on the spindle, subject, however, to the friction exerted by the friction plug 45; Fig. 14 shows the lever retracted and the wedge therefore positively sleeve 55 held by an elastic sleeve 56, em-

bracing the same and the upstanding boss of a plate 57 fixed to said table and covering the opening therein through which the spindle projects, the yielding nature of the sleeve 56 allowing the wiper sleeve to shift laterally with the spindle which, it will be noted, is allowed slight lateral lay as to its upper portion (by flexing) be ore actually contacting with any of the parts with reference to which it has thrust movement (22, 41 and 57), the idea being to eliminate all frictional resistance to the working thrust of the spindle excepting what is predeter mined, z. 6., by adjusting nut 44 and consequently altering the tension of the spring 47. From the foregoing it will be seen that during the step by step advance of the bottles upon and around the bottle rest 22, accomplished by the intermittent advance of the bottle holding turret, each ldottle comes to rest upon the elastic pad 40 of the bottleelevating means, and that during a pause in such advance said elevating means is raised, in connection with the filling of the bottle with the carbonated liquid charge and the sealing of the bottle, and then depressed, leaving the bottle to continue its step by step advance over the rest 22. V

To the front of the pedestal c is bolted a vertical sleeve 0 to which is secured by the threaded rings 0 and 0' the right hand end of a casting 58 (Figs. 20, 22, 24 and 25), held rigid by a brace 59 which connects the casting with an arm-60 proj ecting laterally from the pedestal. Formed with or rigidly secured to sleeve 0 is a bracket 61 (Figs. 2, l8 and 20) having a vertical T-shaped guideway 62 in which slides the T-shaped rib Or projection 63 of a cylinder 64 (Figs. 18 and 19) having a flaring bottle receiving mouth 65 and its port 66, delivering to said mouth, normally closed by a spring-pressed valve 67 (Figs. 19 and 19). In the cylinder is a piston 68 (the joint between which and the cylinder is made tight by the gland 69) having connected to its upper end an eyebolt 70 on which, held between nuts-71, is a shackle 72 having a projecting pin 73. The parts now being described form the syrup dispenser. Upward movement of the projection 63 in the guideway 62 is limited by the stop 62 (Fig. 18). Syrup is supplied to the cylinder 64 from any Suitable source through its nozzle 64 (Fig. 20) having an inwardly opening check valve (not shown). The syrup dispenser is reciprocated by means (to be described) connected with the by the spring pin '23 of the hackle. 9n the downward stroke, the mouth-piece 65 of the cylinder comes against the head of a bottle on the rest 22 and stops, the piston continuing downward and so forcing a charge of syrup into the bottle; on the upward stroke, the rib or projection 63 comes against the stop 62 so that the upward progress of the cylinder is checked and the piston continuing upward, a fresh quantity of syrup is drawn into the cylinder. Assuming that the means for reciprocating the shackle 72 has a predetermined extent of movement and that the descending dispenser always meets the bottle head at approximately the same level, it will be obvious that to adjust the eyebolt downwardly in the shackle is to increase the amount of syrup discharged, and that to adjust the eyebolt upwardly in the shackle is to decrease the quantity of syrup discharged. This adjustment makes it possible to vary the quantity of syrup discharged in proportion to the capacity stand ard of the bottles being tilled, whose heads, according to the height standard of the hottles are brought to the proper level by vertical adjustment of the rest 22. To iinpose frictional resistance to relative movement as between the piston and cylinder I attach to a suitable p art of the piston a rod Tlwhich is gripped betw en the friction-pieces 75 one of which is movably mounted and backed 76 in turn backed by the adjusting screw 7? (Fig. 18). it will be noted that it no bottle is present the downward movement of the cylinder will not be checked, and consequently the syrup charge will remain undelivered.

The casting 58 has at the right-hand end a vertical opening which at 78 forms a seat for a bottle cap or crown. Its left-hand portion forms a box or casing T9 in which a block 80 has slight lateral movement, in which in turn slides the slide 81, the block 80 being formed with a longitudinal pas" sage SOreceiving the slide 81, and the casting 58 having a passage 78 which alines with the passage 80 and terminates at the closure seat 78. The closure chute it terminates at its lower end at the back of and is uitably attached to the casting 58 opposite an opening 80 in the block 80. The slide being reciprocated, on each left-hand stroke a cap is forced by the weight of those behind it into the passage 80 of the block, whereupon the slide moves to the right and shoves the cap through passage 78 toward the bottle seat 78. Opposite the right-hand end of the block there is set in the casting a rubber gasket 82 (Fig. 31 which, as will appear, forms means for sealing 0% from the at a certain which part of the atmosphere stage inthe operation a space includes opening in which the block 80.

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seat 78 is formed. The movements of the slide 81 are accomplished thus: A rockshaft 83 is journaled in the arm and in brackets 84 (Fig. 7) projecting from the left side of the frame. its lower end carrise a crank 85 suitably connected with a slide 86 which travels in a horizontal guideway 87 (Figs. 34: and 35) of the bracket r and which has a roller 88 (Fig. 7) engaging the groove forming the carnway in the right-hand face of the cam disk 1). The upper end of the shaft carries a crank 89 Figs. 1, i and 20) which is suitably connected with the slide 81. For imparting the slight movement to the block 80 necessary to form the aforementioned seal at the gasket 82 there is fulcruined to the casting a lever 90 having a cam-face 90 non-concentric with respect to the axis of shaft 83 and against which bears a roller 90" on the lever 99, said lever having a set screw 90" to impinge against a lug 80 depending from the block 80. 9?. is simply a pivoted cover for the recess 80 in the block, perrnittirg manual access to the delivery end of the chute it.

Whene er it happens that a bottle fails to be presented to the syrup dispenser it is desirable that there should be absence of a crown or cap at the seat 78 at the moment when the bottle would have been presented for the sealing operation at the seat. A gate 92 is pivoted to the casting 58 and has on its forward end a pin 93 adapted to be engaged by one arm of a lever 94; also pivoted to the casting and having its forward arni pulled to the right in Fig. 20 by a spring 95; the spring holds the gate in obstructing relation to the delivery end of the chute, and when the lever is moved counter to the spring the weight of the caps in the chute swings the gate aside to allow the lowermost cap to enter the passage 80 in A container controlled detector lever 95 is pivoted to the cylinder 64 of the syrup dispenser and has one arm projecting into the mouth-piece and apertured for the passage of the liquid (Fig. 19) and the other arm adapted to impinge the head 94' 19, 29 and 21) of the lever 9%. A latch 97 is pivoted to the casting and adapt ed to engage the head 94- of lever 94: to hold it, against the tension of its spring, in the position shown in Figs. 19 and 20; connected with this latch is a pitrnan 98 which freely penetrates an arm 99 projecting from the pin '73 and having adjustable nuts 100 screwed on its upper end above said arm. in the normal position of the lever its head is unengaged by the latch and held (by the When the syrup dispenser descends, it no bottle is present, t e detector lever 96 (which, if not already standing with its apertured end depressed will assume that position as soon as its other end comes against the head 94 of the lever) will not actuate lever 94, and consequently no cap will be delivered to the passage 80; if a bottle is present when the syrup dispenser descends the bottle head will cause the detector lever to swing on its fulcrum, so that it will push lever 94 against the tension of its spring until it is caught by the latch 97, being held in that position until, a cap having been delivered to the passage 80', the slide 81 can effect the placement of.

the cap at the seat 78, whereupon, on the subsequent rise of the syrup dispenser, the arm 99 impinges the nuts 100 and, elevating the pitman 98, causes the latch to release lever 94 so that the gate 92 again comes into obstructing relation to the cap chute.

The right-hand end-portion of the-casting 58 has the hole thereof which, as aforesaid is formed with closure seat or ledge 78, alined with the bore of sleeve 0, and said hole and bore are formed with a continuous recess in which is seated the sealing throat 101 of, say, the type illustrated in Letters Patent 1,078,607. Against the lower face of the casting is held, by the mouth-piece 102,

'the rubber gasket 103 which is adapted to be contracted by any suitable means, say

from a cam-ring 104 held in place by the mouth-piece and which, when turned, forces radially inwardly against the gasket the can1-blocks 105, substantially as explained in Letters Patent No. 725,531. An arm of the cam-ring is connected by the pitman 106 with the crank 107 on the shaft 83 (Fig. 20), so that in the turning movement of shaft 83 when gasket 82 is compressed thegasket 103 is contracted into gripping and sealing relation to the mouth of the bottle, entered previously thereinto (Fig.22).-'

In sleeve 0' is a hollow spindle or plunger comprising an upper section 109 and a lower section. 110 joined by screw threading, said spindle being slidable vertically in the sleeve and having its port 111 o n downwardly but closed at the top by the plug 112 and communicating with a suitable supply of the filling liquid by a tubular connection 113. Port 111 aflords at 114 a valve seat against which seats a valve 115 carried by the lower end of the tubular stem 116, which protrudes upwardly through plug 112, a spiral spring 117 coiled about the stem and interposed between the valve and said plug serving to press the valve against its seat and so close port 111. The section 110 of the spindle has a screw 118 therein whose axial portion 119 (coaxial with said section) is a tube receiving the lower end of a rod 120 which extends upwardly through and protrudes from the stem 116 and has its lower end tapered to form a reducing valve obturating the valve seat 121 in the bore of the tube 119; by adjusting the rod up or down the aperture formed by its tapered lower end and seat 121 may be more or less restricted tor obtaining the desired degree of retardation of flow through the port comprising the lower part of the bore of tube 119 and a passage 122 leading from said bore laterally to the exterior of spindle section 110. Immediately above the gasket 103 the aforesaid hole afiording the closure seat 78 forms a chandler 123 of but slightly greater internal dlameter than the external diameter of the section 110 of the spindle, and outwardly from the chamber leads a port 124 (Fig. 25) wh ch is connected with a receiver 125 (Flgs. 1, 2 and 36) by the tubular connect1on 126. The receiver contains an adjustable piston 127 for varying its capacity and 1t has a discharge outlet 128 controlled by a valve 129 that is normally spring-held in closed position, being opened at the proper time to allow the receivers contents to escape through outlet 128; The upper end of the spindle section 109 has opposite horizontal ways 130 and its plug 112 carries a lever 131 for engaging a collar 131 fixed on stem 116 and so raising the stem to open valve 115, 0" is a gland in sleeve 0 around spindle 109110 (Figs. 22 and 23).

A slide 132 moves vertically in-the guideway 133 of the bracket 5, having a roller 134 engaged in the camway in the left-hand face (Fig. 2) of the disk :0 (Figs. 2, 3 and 3 In the top of the pedestal 0 are fulcrumed two levers 135 and 136 whose rearward ends (Fig. 3) are pivotally attached to sleeves 135 and 136 movably arranged on rods 137 and 138 between adjustable spaced nuts 137, 138' on said rods, springs 139 and 140 being coiled about the rods between the sleeves and the lower nuts; the rods are pivotally connected to said slide. If the movement of pivoted at its forward end on pin 73 of the syrup dispenser. The lever 136 is adapted at its forward end to impinge downwardly against and so actuate lever 131 to open valve 115. Engaged in the ways 130 of the spindle 109110 are rollers 141 at the forward forked end of a lever 142 fulcrumed in the top of the pedestal c. This lever is connected at its rear end with a slide 143 movable vertically in the bracket 0" (Figs. 2, 6 and 7) and having a roller 144 engaged in the cam-way in the left-hand face of the cam disk to, the connection 145 (Fig. 2) 'being yielding and otherwise substantially identical to that between each lever 135, 136 and the slide 132 and therefore not requiring detailed description. Lever 142 has an upstanding crank 146 which, if the working oscillation of said lever is not stopped by tion for receiving the fill ing liquid, obstructs the working oscillatlon of the lever the actual presence of a bottle at the posiaccom- 130 (by engaging a notched block the latter) so that the latter fails to plish the opening of the valve 115.

The actuation of the valve 129 is ei fected from a collar 1%8 (fixed on rod 138) through the medium of a lever 1&9.

The operation, stated generally, is as follows. liach time two bottles are brought by the turret 19 to the syrup-dispensing and filling-lMaid-receiving positions there occur, first. the forming of a sealed union between the bottle at the liquid-filling position and the spindle l09110; then the opening of the valve 115 to admit the filling-liquid to this bottle and the accompanying discharge to the other bottle of its quantum of syrup;

then the closing of said valve and the upward movement of the syrup dispenser; th n upward movement of the spindle avvay froi the corresponding bottle head suiiiciently to admit a closure between them; then the introduction of such the spindle and bottle head; then the rise of the latter bottle until by pressing the closure against the spindle the cork lining of the closure seals the bottle month; then the opening to the atmosphere of the sealed space formed about the bottle mouth for the release of the gas (air and gas} driven from the bottle into chamber 125 by the entering filling liquid, and the elevation of the bottle, spindle and interposed closure, to effect the attachment of the closure to the bottle head by contraction thereoi in the sealing throat 101, and finally the downward movement of the spindle 103-110 with the bottle elevat ing means to eject the bottle from the throat and gasket 103, leaving the lower end of the spindle somewhat below the level of ring 102.

The cams u, v, w, :0 and u" are shown in Figs. 3'? to $0 in those positions, relatively to the rollers :13, 88, 1 1%, 134 and 53' respectively actuated thereby, which correspond to the inception of a cycle of operation of the machine, 2'. 6., the positions Where the bottle elevating means and spindle (actuated by cams u and '20, respectively) are fully depressed, and the means for forming a sealed space around the bottle mouth and placing the closure over the latter actuated by com o), and the means for depressing the syrup dispenser and opening the valve 115 (actuated by cam m) are fully retract-ed.

While the cams are moving through their quadrants l-ll indicated thereon in Figs. 37 to 410, the following operations take place: A bottle has been deposited by the turret 19 on the bottle elevating means and another bott e under the syrup-dispenser. The spindle 109-410 under the influence of cam '10 rises until its lower end assumes about the position indicated in Fig. 22, Within the gasket 103; almost immediately the bottle elevating means under the influence off the cam it forces the bottle head upwardly closure between against the spindle. Upon the bottle impinging against the spindle can u" strikes roller 53 of the bottle-elevating means and momentarily converts the positive grip thereof into'a slip-friction grip; compensation thus occurring until the containerthrust assuming member 3738 assumes in its carrier (slide 42) a definite distance from the spindle the positive grip is restored and remains active throughout the pending cycle When roller 88 runs down the incline shown point it on com o, lever 20) moves and advances the slide 81 sufficiently to the ri ht to out 05 the chute it and somewhat advance in passage 8 the closure the bottom of the closure-line, and

when it moves down the incline at point it the l ver moves again to the right and through lever and blocl: 80 on the one hand and connection 106 and ring 104 on the other effects contraction of gasket 103 into gripping relation to the impinging portions of the spindle bottle mouth, so that the joint between them is sealed and a space is formed, including that of the bottle, receiver 1:25 and the connection between them, that is effectually sealed off from the atmosphere, and the aforesaid closure is advanced by the slide to the position 78. When roller 13 i runs up the incline next after point 1 of com a: it causes the front ends of the levers 135-136, connected with the slide through the yielding connection described, to be depressed somewhat; when, following a pause, the roller mounts the next incline (approaching point ll) the lovers are depressed again. This forces the syrup-dispenser against the bottle therebeneath, to effect delivery of the syrup charge, and, provided there is a bottle at the liquidfilling position, causes lever 136 to rock lever 131 and so open the valve 115, so that the filling-liquid enters the bottle; it there is no bottle at the liquid filling position lever 1 l2tvi1l not be prevented (as it otherwise would be by, the bottle, the required yield occurring in the described yielding or cushion connection between lever 142 and slide 143) from responding momentarily to the depressing influence of a hump at point ll on cam w and so shifting crank 146 into the path of downward movement of block 1%? on lever 136 (the pause above mentioned giving the crank time to assume this position if required), so that lever 136 is urrested before it engages lever 131 and delivcry of filling liquid does not occur; it ill be understood that When lever 136 is thus arrested the necessary yield occurs in the yielding connection or cushion afiorded by parts 138, 138, 1&0 and 136. So far as 1 am aware it is new to control the liquid-flowcontrolling means in a machine of this character by a detecting means moving at regular intervals and adapted to accomplish its control by virtue of presence or absence of a 

